Question
As IT stocks grapple with these challenges, investors
remained cautious, awaiting further clarity on global economic trends. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is (5). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any).Solution
The sentence has a tense inconsistency. The phrase "investors remained cautious" is in the past tense, while the preceding clause "As IT stocks grapple with these" is in the present tense. To ensure consistency, "remained cautious" should be changed to "remain cautious" to match the present tense.
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